I have a weird issue with openSUSE 12.3 X64. I just moved back to SUSE after a few years using mainly Ubuntu. So far, I’m enjoying most of it, but on one system I have a weird issue
I have a Dell XPS system that I just installed. Install went fine, but I always install some packages that I don’t want to use right away, so I disable them after install, as well as some default packages I don’t want to run
Specifically:
rpcbind
cyrus
openldap
avahi-daemon
nscd (as I run a bind server)
I did this previously without issue, but on the Dell box, all the above services start after every reboot despite the fact that I’ve done everything I can think of to disable them. I used Yast to edit the runlevels and disable them. They started after that. I manually checked all rcX.d links and removed any links relating to the above programs (insserv -r, then another manual check), so they are definitely NOT starting from rc5.d.
So I figured that somehow the new systemd must start them (even though cyrus isn’t a systemctl service). So I went and disabled them all with systemctl disable
And yet: they still start up after every reboot.
Checking with systemctl:
systemctl is-enabled rpcbind.servicedisabled
So it appears they are set to disabled. And yet, they keep starting. Except for avahi-daemon: somehow, I did manage to disable that. The others, not so much, they start every time
Any ideas?
Sounds to me its time to lean how to use systemd. Once an application is moved over to a service file, you must use systemd to set their operation. Here are a few programs for your systemd pleasure and example:
> disable them after install, as well as some default packages I don’t
> want to run
>
> Specifically:
> - rpcbind
> - cyrus
> - openldap
> - avahi-daemon
> - nscd (as I run a bind server)
nscd, despite the name, doesn’t cache the same things as bind, they
complement.
> I did this previously without issue, but on the Dell box, all the above
> services start after every reboot despite the fact that I’ve done
> everything I can think of to disable them. I used Yast to edit the
> runlevels and disable them.
YaST runlevel editor in 12.3 is known to be broken.
> They started after that. I manually checked
> all rcX.d links and removed any links relating to the above programs
The symlinks are ignored. If you read the openSUSE manual of a version
when systemv was used, the symlinks were ignored for service startup:
instead a series of Makefile like files (.depend.*) in that directory
were used.
insserve might work, but as 12.3 uses systemd, then it will probably not
work. chkconfig might work.
Or you can try “systemadm” - you have to install “systemd-ui”.
I see jdmcdaniel3 has given you some reading material
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
